Andile Ramaphosa, son of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has wedded his long-term fiancée, Bridget Birungi. The nuptials held at the Kololo suburb in Uganda.
The traditional marriage ceremony known as kuhingira was attended by Ramaphosa, and Yoweri Museveni who was also accompanied by the First Lady Janet.
‘’We would like to thank you for being trustworthy, for being dependable because you fulfilled the conditions. So, we are very happy to fulfill our part of handing over to you the hand of our daughter Bridget Birungi,’’ Mbabazi was quoted saying by Sowetan Live.
‘’In our culture, we hand the child to the father and it’s now my pleasure to do just that.’’
‘’We accept her as our daughter firstly, and we also accept her as our son’s beloved wife and I can assure you that the two of them are too deeply in love,’’ president Ramaphosa said.
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Ramaphosa’s wife, Dr Tshepo, his ex-wife Hope Ramaphosa and a delegation of about 150 people received Bridget into the first family of South Africa.
‘’As a big army from home, we are delighted that as we go home we won’t go back empty handed,’’ the South African president said.
‘’Many girls in South Africa are envious of you, even on social media they were saying why did he go so far when we are here. They don’t know that you fell in love in China,’’ he added.
Confirming his father’s statement, Andile revealed during a recent interview that the two met in Asia where he was working, and Bridget was pursuing her studies.